Not in Canada last time I checked, but pretty sure they do in the States.

Yeah that was a lemon. New one seems good though.

As a repair tech I think the Mini is one of the most reliable computers made. A few models were underpowered if people bought low end versions, especially the 2014’s with 4GB memory and laptop hdds.

Also because if the cable plugged into the forward edge, leaving the cable in, like 20% of users would, will destroy the charge port before warranty is done.

Power button is already on a flex cable, could have put it anywhere really.

Move the mouse or touch the trackpad, or press any key on the keyboard and it wakes up quickly. BT OK.

Many macs that I work on haven’t been shut down for months, usually just rebooted after system updates.

Sleep on a mac mini is very low power: if you use the computer every day it’s less energy than booting up.

I repair macs and just hate the battery job on your model. It would be reasonable to have Apple do it. It’s expensive, but it’s a better quality battery than the third party stuff you get by DiY or going to an independent shop.

That said, it may be messy and time consuming, but you can buy the battery off of amazon and use iFixit to guide you, and save $150.

In a lot of cases, especially five years ago, this is correct. Lately, with Apple silicon processors, the low end machines are a good deal. You won’t find a NUC with similar low-power performance, capable of 4k video editing without fan noise or a hiccup, at anything close to the same price. It SMOKES the competition at the $600 price bracket.

But yeah, if money is an issue and you’re already invested in macOS software, buy a used M1 mini for $300 and you’re good, or if really broke, buy an off-lease business desktop for $125 and put linux Mint on it.

As everyone else says, battery replacement time.

The freemium and excellent little macOS utility Coconut Battery gives details that will confirm why you need a replacement.

Well, they wanted to stay “sleep”, and got it.

Just a reminder that the former Mayor of Regina later became Canada’s notorious KKK Member of Parliament. So Regina, settler haven of starlight tours and other delightful forms of subjugation, wasn’t racist enough for these degenerates.

Don’t look down

Because the USA is still operating under a caste system, so in that sense they never lost.

Canadian here, don’t people just call it a washroom?

They aren’t volunteering so it’s recommended to just call it slavery.

I have written and moderated courseware for education students focusing on digital literacy. A requirement for graduation, pass/fail. I was so excited to start the project. I was so disappointed by the end.

The teachers to-be had very little digital literacy overall, and very little ability to recognize that or care. Too many passed, by design of the department heads. It was saddening to realize that most of them were headed out into the world with indifference to social media processes and little ability to recognize digital manipulation, and to share that indifference with children.

I always took it to mean that people are fed shit information by design and we should fix that.

Or, maybe it has something to do with who owns print and broadcast media, social media and other algorithmic psyop structures, and is leaning hard on educational curricula.

The social narrative. The information water most people swim in. It’s owned by the adversaries of universal suffrage.

Billionaires own the legacy media and most social media.

In other words, they control the means of social reproduction.

Buckminster Fuller, who was smart enough to predict the geometry of the most common object in space, the ‘Bucky Ball’ and designed geodesic domes, thought that eating steak was more efficient than plants because the cow focused the nutrients.

Stay in your lane, experts.